I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California.

Envy is merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man who envies another admits thereby his own inferiority.

it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.

The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-respecting people to be engaged in.

The shots that count in battle are the shots that hit, and only those.

I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life, in every way.

No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.

I have not got much to say to you, because since I have been in California I have felt a good deal more like learning than teaching.

Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more interested in its citizenship.

No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy.

The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen.

There is the same sound reason for distrusting the man who promises too much in public that there is for distrusting the man who promises too much in private business.

We have a right to expect from the college bred man, the college bred woman, a proper sense of proportion, a proper sense of perspective.

I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the men who work in the Navy Yard for the quality of the work that they do.

Applaud the navy and what it has done. That is first-class. But make your applause count by seeing that the good work goes on.

I am sure that the others will not mind my saying a special word of greeting to two sets of men.

I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it.

I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.